Viewing Library images full size without clicking back and forth?

When using the Snagit editor, you can scroll through your Recent images and see them full screen. That is convenient for looking through your 10 or 15 most recent images. However, if you want to look at older screenshots, you have to go to the Library view. From there, you can find the screenshot you're looking for, then double click it to open it in the editor.

If it turns out you want to find a different screenshot that you took before or after the one you just opened, you have to click Library, double click another image, then keep repeating that process. If you press Command + [ or ], it will advance through your Recent images, but not your library.

Is there some reason you can't use a command to navigate through your library in a similar way to the Recent view? Or is there a way to show the Library view below the editor? You could then adjust how large you want the Library preview images to be, and how tall you want that section to be below the editor.

That makes it easy enough to identify older screenshots. However, if I want to edit some screenshots I took days ago, it's tedious to then have to keep switching between Library and the Editor, since none of the screenshots are in the Recents.

I answered a similar post recently with a suggestion that the recents tray should have < > controls either end that would let you scroll to the previous / next n items. Can't find it now, but it sounds like that might be the kind of thing that would help you.

Something that you can do on the mac side in the Library is to select a capture and hit the space bar. That will give you a full-size preview of the image. Then you can use the arrow keys to navigate through your captures. This makes it a little easier to find what you're looking for.

Note: The preview feature was partially broken by macOS 10.13.4, we're working on a fix.

Paul, zooming in so the thumbnails are large enough that I can read annotations–or just see small details in a screenshot–means the library thumbnails need to be huge. That makes it difficult to efficiently scroll through the library. Not only that, but changing the thumbnail size back and forth isn't a great workaround.

As for the Preview functionality, that is definitely useful, at least on the Mac side. I use Snagit on a Windows machine as well though, so this doesn't help there.

Regarding older screenshots, I actually go to non-recent images a lot. I am working on a year-long website development project, and lots of times I'll take a screenshot of something I see broken, but will not annotate the screenshot for a few weeks until I'm ready to formally QA a different part of the site.

I think one potential solution is just allowing the Library to appear below the editor, and letting the user sort the Library whatever way he or she wants. Then if I want a "Recent" view, I can just leave the library sorted by newest date.

On a side note, I'm not sure why you can't make the Recent drawer taller by deciding how you want to allocate space between the editor and the drawer.

I'm loving how much easier it is to annotate screenshots in Snagit compared to when I used to use Photoshop, but there are really some usability issues in the Snagit that I find surprising.

Paul, zooming in so the thumbnails are large enough that I can read annotations–or just see small details in a screenshot–means the library thumbnails need to be huge. That makes it difficult to efficiently scroll through the library. Not only that, but changing the thumbnail size back and forth isn't a great workaround.

As for the Preview functionality, that is definitely useful, at least on the Mac side. I use Snagit on a Windows machine as well though, so this doesn't help there.

Regarding older screenshots, I actually go to non-recent images a lot. I am working on a year-long website development project, and lots of times I'll take a screenshot of something I see broken, but will not annotate the screenshot for a few weeks until I'm ready to formally QA a different part of the site.

I think one potential solution is just allowing the Library to appear below the editor, and letting the user sort the Library whatever way he or she wants. Then if I want a "Recent" view, I can just leave the library sorted by newest date.

On a side note, I'm not sure why you can't make the Recent drawer taller by deciding how you want to allocate space between the editor and the drawer.

I'm loving how much easier it is to annotate screenshots in Snagit compared to when I used to use Photoshop, but there are really some usability issues in the Snagit that I find surprising.

They have abandoned the core users for company "growth" There are tons of post from employees having the same issues with management not listening and doing their own thing as they watch the core products fail.

It is not just the end users and apparently no one at the top is listening

What's the odds TechSmith considers you a part of their new target market? Did you fill out a form and let them know this? Or is it an assumed fact on their part?

LOL,sorry. I couldn't help myself. I really can't figure out how they prioritize feature requests these days. Maybe they use an old fashioned Bingo Hall Spinner.Take the ideas and Assign bingo letters and numbers to a ball for each idea. If they Pluck them out of the basket? They go with it.

I suppose one might argue that dashed shapes won't work in technical communication and technology training use situations.How you can possibly make that case stick escapes me, but I suppose you can give it a shot.

Oh well, I think the whole voting process has become comedic at best. It was rolled out as a new approach to reach out. Give users an innovative way to request features and make the product all about us. Give us what we want.

Part of going over the hill and joining the downhill slide is being impressed with you own ideas and rejecting anything from ethers as not in tune with the road map

A lot of us chimed in to try to save a beloved program. All the yeses and "we're listening" and the follow up should tell you all you need to know. Some other tech company will come out with a product that will blow techsmith out of the water. When the first big corporate account jumps ship ... only then will they look towards the tattered remnants of their base which by that time will not be enough to sustain them